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Definition of unregulated financial sector entities

In applying the 1.25 co-efficient specified under Article 153(2) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, what is that definition of "unregulated financial sector entities"?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_516
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 14/11/2014

Non-performing exposures - Cash balances at central banks, Non-current assets held for sale

Does template F18.00 DEBT INSTRUMENTS AT AMORTISED COST (rows 010 to 180) include Cash and cash balances at central banks portfolio? Does template F18.00 DEBT INSTRUMENTS AT FAIR VALUE other than HFT (rows 190 to 320) include Non-current assets and disposal groups classified as held for sale?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)
  • ID: 2014_1106
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 14/11/2014

Minority interests

Article 81(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) defines minority interests which are part of CET-1 instruments where the sum of share premium accounts related to those instruments, retained earnings and other reserves are noted. On the other hand the other comprehensive income defined in Article 26(1)(d) of CRR is not noted in Article 81(1). Further, Article 84(1)(a) refers to the CET-1 capital of the respective subsidiary which means for us the other comprehensive income is part of the calculation. How does other comprehensive income have to be treated in case of calculation of the minority interests?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_487
  • Topic: Own funds
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 07/11/2014

LE2: Credit insurance allowed as CRM technique?

Our primary business is Factoring. Therefore our balance credit figures are mainly invoices / accounts receivables, which we have bought from our clients. As security / protection against credit losses we have established a credit insurance with a credit insurance company. Can we use the credit insurance ("Warenkreditversicherung") as CRM technique? Is column 290 "other commitments" in template LE2 the correct position to fill in the credit amount covered by our credit insurance contract? To our understanding "credit insurance" could be regarded as a position under item (1) k) or (2) b) iv) of CRR-Appendix I .

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)
  • ID: 2014_768
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Large Exposures
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 07/11/2014

reporting of defaulted and past due items in maturity buckets

LE4, LE5: Where should an institution (in which bucket) report defaulted (or past due) parts of the exposure?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)
  • ID: 2014_754
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Large Exposures
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 07/11/2014

Total inflows excluded due do cap

Instructions concerning reporting on inflows, specify that total monies due which are excluded due to an inflow cap which is set at 75% of liquidity outflows shall be reported in row 990 of C 53.00. This will require to be checked by reference to total outflows as calculated from the outflow template. How is this supposed to be done, when the outflow template C 52.00 contains no row for total outflows (no reference to total outflows) and inflow template C 53.00 contains no row for total inflows before cap (no reference to total inflows before cap)?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)
  • ID: 2013_631
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 07/11/2014

In the case of a repurchase of CET 1 instruments, AT 1 instruments, or T 2 instruments for market making purposes, competent authorities may give their permission in advance to reducing own funds for a certain predetermined amount.

Would such a frame given in advance to reduce own funds for a certain predetermined amount for market making purposes result in a deduction from own funds at the time when permission is given or would a deduction from own funds be made at the time when the actual repurchase of capital instruments takes place? It should be noted that the question being posed is linked to the situation where a permission is given in advance to repurchase own capital instrument for market making purposes. The question being posed is not linked to a situation where a permission is given in advance to repurchase own capital instrument in order to reduce own funds on a permanently basis.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 241/2014 - RTS for Own Funds requirements for institutions
  • ID: 2014_1352
  • Topic: Own funds
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 31/10/2014

Classification of invoice discount facilities as full risk items

1. Should invoice discount facilities always be classified as full risk items or may such facilities be classified as medium/low or low risk if they may be cancelled with immediate effect when the assumptions used for setting the limit change? 2. Should the nominal value of an invoice discount facility as an off-balance sheet item be calculated as the difference between the contractual limits of the total credit volumes of clients and the amounts that have been paid to clients for the discounted invoices not yet due for payment from customers?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2014_1324
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 31/10/2014

Additional Tier 1 and Tier 2

Should the Additional Tier 1, Tier 1 ,Tier 2 and own funds stemming from undertakings of third countries outside Europe and subject to local requirements equivalent to those requirements under Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) and Directive (EU) 2013/36 (CRD), be included in the consolidated own funds?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_620
  • Topic: Own funds
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 31/10/2014

Inconsistency between the definition of "accumulated impairment" in paragraphs 46 and 161

Does the definition of "accumulated impairment" includes only allowances as defined in paragraph 46 of Annex V (i.e. FINREP instructions) or both allowances and write-offs taken to Income Statement, as defined in paragraph 161 of the document EBA FINAL draft Implementing Technical Standards On Supervisory reporting on forbearance and non-performing exposures under article 99(4) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)
  • ID: 2014_926
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 31/10/2014

C 60.00 Items requiring stable funding - treatment of NPLs

How should non-performing non-renewable loans be reported in the template C 60.00? Should they be reported in rows 900-1250 i.e. 'non-renewable loans and receivables' or row 1300 'any other assets', and what maturity bucket should they be assigned to?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)
  • ID: 2014_893
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 31/10/2014

Eligible capital under Art. 4(1)(71)(a) and (b) CRR

The position C 04.00, r 220 (ID 11) "Eligible capital for the purposes of qualifying holdings outside the financial sector and large exposures" conflates two distinct definitions of "eligible capital", i.e. eligible capital for the purposes of Title III of Part Two CRR (cf. Art. 4(1)(71)(a) CRR) and eligible capital for the purposes of Art. 97 and Part Four CRR (cf. Art. 4(1)(71)(b) CRR). The two definitions of eligible capital differ with regard to the deduction under Art. 36(1)(k)(i) CRR and, if applicable, the resulting limitation in the eligibility of Tier 2 capital (which may not exceed one third of Tier 1 capital for the purposes of both lit. (a) and lit. (b)). Hence it is necessary to split the position into two positions.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)
  • ID: 2014_1150
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 29/10/2014

Maturity-based calculation of general risk

Are the FX Forward, FX Swap and CIRS to be taken into consideration when computing the General Risk using the maturity-based method?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 241/2014 - RTS for Own Funds requirements for institutions
  • ID: 2014_1356
  • Topic: Market risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 24/10/2014

Grandfathering of own funds instruments

Is buying back parts of an issued Tier 1 instrument that do not meet the requirements of Article 53 in Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) but are eligible for grandfathering possible, or would it make the remaining outstanding amount disqualified for grandfathering? This question is similar to Question 2013_18, but keeps the contract of the instrument unchanged.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2014_1253
  • Topic: Own funds
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 24/10/2014

Retail Depoists - EUR1 million limit

With reference to the definition of "Retail Deposits", does the EUR1 million limit apply to 'natural persons'? Or does it solely apply to SMEs and companies eligible for the treatments set out in Article 153(4) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2014_1062
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 24/10/2014

Inclusion of derivatives in the product list mentioned in Article 378

Are derivatives also to be included in the product list mentioned in Article 378?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2014_851
  • Topic: Market risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 24/10/2014

Types of collateral to be taken into account in the calculation of hypothetical capital by a CCP in accordance with Article 223(5) of CRR

When a CCP calculates the KCCP in accordance with the formula set up in the new Article 50a of EMIR (introduced by Article 520 of CRR), what kind of collateral should be taken into account in the fully adjusted value of the exposure (E*), calculated according to Article 223(5) of CRR and substituted for EBRMi?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_657
  • Topic: Market infrastructures
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 24/10/2014

Administrative penalties for legal persons

Can Member States in their national law provide an option to impose higher penalties for legal persons?

  • Legal act: Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_410
  • Topic: Other issues
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 24/10/2014

Application of Article 52 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) at consolidated level

What is the treatment at consolidated level of AT1 instruments issued by a third country subsidiary where the 5.125% CET1 conversion/write down trigger that refers only to the subsidiary CET1 ratio? To the effect of this calculation, which definition should be used, the one in the home country law or the one of the host country law?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_385
  • Topic: Own funds
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 24/10/2014

Definition of a "material penalty" and "individually justified circumstances"

What is the definition of a "material penalty" and "individually justified circumstances"? Who will be the final arbiter in determining the “materiality” of the penalty for early withdrawal within 30 days?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_301
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 24/10/2014